Kittykatruff

Have you ever watched raindrops race
down the car window-pane?

Some days they chase the blues away,
and I see rainbows through their streaks.

Sometimes they are struggling in vain
to hold onto cold, smooth, unfeeling glass,

A rush of air into my lungs
lets me know I'm alive again.

it feels like
waking up, 
and
leaving things behind

not quite
metamorphosized,
but now the sun looks different,
I feel the rays hot on my skin

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” (Emily Dickinson)

I feel the air rush in
and out.
My heartbeat
shakes my soul,
it sounds so loud.
I realize my eyebrows
are knit together,

I laugh in the sun,
and everything 
seems to glow.

Then my smile fades,
suddenly
much too heavy,
and 
I'm paralyzed--

Reminders
all around me,
in glimpses of
people I think
I know,

November 3rd, 2020.
May this election
bring us hope.

May this election
bring us peace.

May this election
bring us change,
whatever form it takes –

lift up the oppressed,